I'd dearly love to get some newts for our garden. Triturus vulgaris. We live in North Tipperary, and we've never seen one. I used to keep them as pets when I was a child, and we have a wildlife pond, logpile, and very suitable habitat. Does anybody have a large population, from which a couple of breeding pairs could be "Translocated"?

They don't like to live with either frogs or fish as well. Choosey, aren't they?

A large number of newts magically appeared in my pond but when sticklebacks magically appeared as well, the newts hoofed it. I'd say, they've moved down to the Corcass below us. And now in our pond, Henrietta Heron breakfasts on sticklebacks.

Is there anything you can do to attract newts into your pond? Im a bit of a pond addict, I've dug three. Two have lots of frogs but the third so far has no frogs, but then I only dug it this summer.
I'd love to have newts in pond number three!

Is there anything you can do to attract newts into your pond? Im a bit of a pond addict, I've dug three. Two have lots of frogs but the third so far has no frogs, but then I only dug it this summer.
I'd love to have newts in pond number three!

As far as I know, no fish, still water and vegetation to curl their eggs into.

Thanks, I think your right about the frogs. I will post pictures eventually, but I'm having trouble with the first two ponds, just loads of duckweed, it's so difficult to get rid of, I'm trying to seive it out, but then it's full of wiggly pondlife which I can't bring myself to sacrifice, so I end up putting the duckweed back. I could pile it up by the side of the pond but then wiggly things would never get out and back into the pond.
So I'm not proud of those ponds at the moment. I think i'll tackle the weed in february maybe when there isn't so much life.

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